Demeter House

Learners watched a webcast interview with a Holocaust survivor and all lesson leads (inc. English, Maths and Science) incorporated an activity with a Holocaust focus into lessons across the week.

Healing Academy

A student workshop allowed deep engagement and reflection with a local dimension, with Ian Judson welcomed to share the incredible story of Auntie Ada, and work recognised by local education authority representatives.

St Laurence School

Yr12 and 9 student ambassadors put together a tutor activity and briefing to share HtFMeUs learning about the Clein family. Each student in every tutor group was given a candle template and asked to decorate it to remember someone.

Manchester Enterprise Academy

Pupils applied their learning from HMD assemblies, lessons, SMSC, MEA Reads: ‘When we flew away’ and Speak Up: Resistance when reflecting using these visual bricks and thereby bridging generations in a display that will represent their whole community.

Hinde House 2-16 Academy

Among the components of Hinde Houses’ comprehensive marking of HMD were scheduled visits to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum at Laxton.

The Lakes School

Student leadership and local connection was at the heart of HMD at Windermere, with #HtFMeUs participants sharing their learning about Morris with peers, and sharing the story of their Garden and their partnership with Trinity Catholic School

Swanmore College

Combining Beacon School commitments and work as a UNICEF rights respecting school, with a real focus on the UNRCR, students reflected following assemblies by History Dept, reflecting on the power of words, insights by Robert Rinder, and responses will form a display.

All Saints Church of England School

Drawing on Centre materials to explore stories of Leon Greenman and Janusz Korczak, learners reflected on how we can use these stories to ‘Bridge the Generations’. As an academy HMD was recognised as an opportunity to continue working together to light the darkness, developing our roles as advocates for all who suffer injustice with messages to the future.

Highfields School

The school took being a Beacon School literally and symbolically when joining the Light the Darkness and lighting the school up purple, whilst in assemblies, student engagement with #HtFMeUs project was championed, reminders to help students recognise and challenge antisemitism and all forms of hate and tools to bridge generations.

Royal Wootton Bassett Academy

With a whole school assembly, subject ‘activate’ HMD stimuli and bespoke ilearn materials for Yrs7-13, personal stories, lived experiences and understanding of second and third generation at its heart, a week of activities marked HMD in light touch but meaningful and regular engagements- including Yr 8 working in their PE lessons to reflect on power of sport, and building a bridge of values and pledges.

Trinity Catholic School

Whilst assemblies, #HtFMeUs engagement and the lighting up of their memorial garden has become integral to annual commemorations, the latest ‘Shoes’- part of the ‘In their Footsteps’ project, took centre stage, in school and with a portion of the Trinity shoes on display at Westminster.

Outwood Academy Adwick

Across the Trust, OGAT recognise the importance of understanding the significance of the Holocaust, so the aim of assemblies aimed to shine a light on the legacy of the Holocaust and why it is important to recognise atrocities that continue across the world, and specifically genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.